5 Indicted In Connection With Alleged Drug Sale

April 23, 1996|By Gary Mays, Tribune Staff Writer.

Five men, including two Texas brothers, have been indicted by a grand jury in connection with the sale of 220 pounds of marijuana in Chicago and Waukegan that was foiled by Lake County investigators, authorities said Monday.

The marijuana, worth an estimated $660,000 on the street, was seized after an informant tipped the Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group.

Details of the arrest were withheld until after the grand jury delivered the indictment Friday.

The first arrest, at about 6 p.m. April 8, occurred in a parking lot on 10th Street in Waukegan. That's where Jesse Nino, 34, of Texas, was arrested delivering 170 pounds of marijuana to Carlos Torres, 36, of Waukegan, according to Assistant State's Atty. Jim Simonian.

As a result of information gleaned during the initial investigation, detectives made another arrest on the 2800 block of West Nelson Street in Chicago the next morning, where several men had gone to deliver 50 more pounds of marijuana.

At the Chicago location the two brothers, Antonio Molina, 44, and Alberto Molina, 34, both of Texas, were arrested. Another Texan, Jesse Jaime, 23, also was arrested during that transaction, Simonian said.

All five were indicted on charges of marijuana trafficking, unlawful possession with intent to deliver and unlawful possession of marijuana.

The suspects remained in Lake County Jail on $170,000 bond Monday, Simonian said. They will be arraigned on May 1.